A Tale of Two Granadas: Custom, Community, and Citizenship in the Spanish Empire, 1568–1668 (Cambridge Latin American Studies, Series Number 130) - Hardcover

Deardorff, Max

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1009335405 ISBN 13: 9781009335409

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2023

Synopsis

In 1570's New Kingdom of Granada (modern Colombia), a new generation of mestizo (half-Spanish, half-indigenous) men sought positions of increasing power in the colony's two largest cities. In response, Spanish nativist factions zealously attacked them as unequal and unqualified, unleashing an intense political battle that lasted almost two decades. At stake was whether membership in the small colonial community and thus access to its most lucrative professions should depend on limpieza de sangre (blood purity) or values-based integration (Christian citizenship). A Tale of Two Granadas examines the vast, trans-Atlantic transformation of political ideas about subjecthood that ultimately allowed some colonial mestizos and indios ladinos (acculturated natives) to establish urban citizenship alongside Spaniards in colonial Santafé de Bogotá and Tunja. In a spirit of comparison, it illustrates how some of the descendants of Spain's last Muslims appealed to the same new conceptions of citizenship to avoid disenfranchisement in the face of growing prejudice.

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About the Author

Max Deardorff is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Florida. He is a former Fulbright Scholar and fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory. He is the recipient of the Association for Spanish & Portuguese Historical Studies (ASPHS) prize for best early career article.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1009335405
• ISBN 13: 9781009335409
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 338